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Close your eyes and picture your grandma’s house. Most of you are probably picturing a space that is warm, inviting, familiar, but most likely not a modern, cutting edge space. There’s probably a decent amount of tchotchkes, heirlooms and general … Continue reading → The post Is Your Website Like Grandma’s House? appeared first on snack o'clock.
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There’s no doubt about it: finding good stock photography can be tough. And when it isn’t tough, it’s expensive. When I scroll through images on the popular stock house websites looking for images for our blog posts or newsletters and … Continue reading → The post 5 Favorite Free Stock Photography Resources, Part II appeared first on snack o'clock.
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About a year ago, I was facing a big office space decision. Do we stay in our current office or move? Keep the current space design or blow it out? Our landlord paid for a fancy architect to come up with new layouts and designs. In the end, we decided to stay in place, sign […] The post What Employees Want From Office Space: Flexibility appeared first on The MatriX Files.
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Here in the D.C. metro area, midsummer means high tourist season — and the middle of convention-planning season. Several of our association clients are ramping up for their annual conventions in August, September, or October, and that planning includes the … Continue reading →
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CFEclipse TODO tasks and custom tasks While developing applications I’m always dumping code to the screen in order to troubleshoot, and CFEclipse TODO makes this more convenient for me. The TODO feature allows you to track items on your “to-do … Continue reading →
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Google wouldn’t be Google if it wasn’t shaking things up with its products and offerings. The latest shake up? Sunsetting the Google Site Search. As you may have heard, over the course of the next year, Google Site Search will … Continue reading →
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I attend a lot of kickoff meetings. For redesigns, mobile apps, custom databases, you name it. The best kickoff meetings are the ones where the CEO, Executive Director, the EVP or President attend, participate actively and provide insight. Why? When the top person in the organization attends a meeting, staff know that meeting is […]
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Website design and usage is getting more challenging for a lot of us. In addition to more older Americans accessing the internet via smartphones only, more young people than before are living with diagnosed cognitive disabilities like autism spectrum disorder (ASD), … Continue reading →
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Search drives almost everything online. While lots of us bookmark pages or click on links that take us from one website to another, typing keywords into a search engine and hitting ‘Return’ is how most web users, most of the … Continue reading →
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As the Marketing Coordinator at Matrix Group, I’ve started to use social media on a daily basis not just to connect with my friends, but to see what is going on in the world and to see what is trending from … Continue reading →
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An office is a quirky family sometimes. We’ve got our weird but lovable uncle developers, our zany aunts on the MatrixMaxx team, and Mom and Dad, the CEO and COO, encouraging us as well as wagging a finger here or … Continue reading →
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While 2016 was an exciting year for design – there was a shift toward mobile-first design, video and rich imagery were hotter than ever, and animations became the norm – I’m even more excited about what we can expect to … Continue reading →
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You just finished college and all that hard work is finally going to pay off. At least you hope it will. You studied hard, got good grades, got involved outside of the classroom, had a few internships, and even took … Continue reading →
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One of the best parts of my job is conducting user interviews. Nearly every Matrix Group project starts with a User Persona exercise where we interview staff to glean their most important target audiences. Then a team of Matrix Group staff interview people in each group. Whenever I can, I help conduct these interviews because […]
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I blogged recently that Matrix Group switched over to Google Apps. I have had a personal Gmail account for many years now and my family can’t function without our shared family Google calendar. So now I have Gmail at work and I’m loving it. I especially love Gmail’s inbox configurations. Here’s how it works. You […]
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Matrix Group, a digital agency in the Washington DC area specializing in web design, development, AMS, integration, mobile and e-marketing services, has won two industry awards from the 29th Annual APEX Awards for Publication Excellence.

Matrix Group announces the recent launch of a redesigned conference website for the Mechanical Service Contractors of America, the second-largest of the membership groups that are part of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America.

Matrix Group announces the launch of Digital Evidence and the Internet of Things, part of the Law Enforcement Cybercenter website, a joint effort between IACP, RAND Corporation, and the Police Executive Research Forum that is funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.